عنوان

Media spectacle /

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Media spectacle /

[Book]

Douglas Kellner.

New York :

Routledge,

2003.

1 online resource (xiv, 192 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-185) and index.

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface and acknowledgments; Media culture and the triumph of the spectacle; Commodity spectacle : McDonald's as global culture; The sports spectacle, Michael Jordan, and Nike; Megaspectacle: the O.J. Simpson murder trial; TV spectacle: aliens, conspiracies, and biotechnology in The X-Files; Presidential Politics, the Movie; References; Index.

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During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trials dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in elements of domestic melodrama, crime drama and legal drama. According to cultural critic and scholar Douglas Kellner, the Simpson case was just one example of what the author calls 'media spectacle' -- a form of media culture that puts contemporary dreams, nightmares, fantasies and values on display. Through the analysis of several such media spectacles -- including Elvis, the X Files, Michael Jordan, and the Bill Clinton sex scandals - Kellner's insightful and fascinating book draws out important insights into media, journalism, the public sphere and politics in an era of new technologies. Media Spectacle is a brilliant dissection of contemporary society; its ongoing appetite for scandal, tragedy and perversion; and the new technologies and media that strive to feed this immense hunger. This is cultural criticism and media analysis at its best.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

MIL

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Media spectacle.

041526829X

Mass media and culture-- United States.

Popular culture-- United States.

Culture populaire-- États-Unis.

Médias et culture-- États-Unis.

Evenementen.

Mass media and culture.

Massamedia.

Massenkultur

Massenmedien

Mediahypes.

Popular culture.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Media Studies.

United States.

USA.

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SOC-- 052000

Kellner, Douglas,1943-

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